The floods left hospitals
struggling with numerous people brought in for treatment
of waterborne diseases. Medical centers in the flood-hit areas are in
dire need of basic supplies and medicine. Hundreds of thousands of people in both parts of Kashmir have been forced out of their homes in the flood-hit areas.

While relief efforts globally and from government entities has been frightfully slow, the strength and independence of the people of Kashmir has once again, risen in times of great adversity.

The above photo, taken 09/08/14 by Ieshan Wani, depicts Budshah bridge where new born babies
are being carried in a basket tied with electric wires on the back of
a man. The other person was carrying an oxygen cylinder to keep them
alive, after they managed to move them from an inundated hospital in
Srinagar to JLMN hospital.